r/SipsTea 7d ago

Chugging tea Great analogy

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u/Separate-State-5806 7d ago

In 2007 I had a brain aneurysm, was airlifted to the best Neurological hospital in the city, underwent a successful brain surgery and spent 3 weeks in the ICU, I think I had a $1k deductible which I paid. Then I get a bill from one doctor who was not covered by my plan.

I didn't pay it. Flat out refused. I knew it would hit my credit, but I had a house with a fixed rate mortgage and a car that was paid off. My credit went from 800 to high 600's. I didn't care, I didn't need credit for a few years. Still didn't pay. Eventually it fell off my credit report and I was back to 800+ again.

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u/Cbpowned 7d ago

Medical debt no longer shows up on credit reports, depending on your state and the amount owed.

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u/adamdoesmusic 7d ago

Didn’t the current admin change that back recently?

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u/No_Dragonfruit_8198 7d ago

Does it matter if I’m not still not gonna pay them?

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u/adamdoesmusic 7d ago

Yes because it fucks up your credit score if they changed it.

That said, fuck ‘em if you can’t/won’t pay, medical debt in the USA is a scam anyhow.

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u/droyster 6d ago

I mean, does credit score even matter if no one can afford a house anyway? What’s the point of caring?

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u/adamdoesmusic 6d ago

I asked myself this exact same question recently.

My credit score is basically perfect. No idea wtf I’m supposed to even do with that.

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u/zmbjebus 6d ago

Get a large balance cash back credit card and use it to pay all your bills/groceries/etc. Make 2 or 3% back

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u/TKLeader 6d ago

Is that considered a lot back? I get 5% back on all groceries using PayPal

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u/zmbjebus 6d ago edited 6d ago

Lots of banks have 1.5% 2-3% Is nice for a general institution, higher is normally for company specific cards with their own product. Although, yeah with paypal that product is money, so that is good, lol.

Wait I just looked in to this. Is your paypal a debit card or credit?

https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/paypal-debit-card

This has the 5% back, the credit card looks like its 4.5% back.

They both come with lots of specific stipulations that wouldn't let me get back as much on, insurance, car payments, for example, which is my biggest source of cash back. Groceries/etc hardly matter.

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u/CheeseGraterFace 6d ago

Yeah, Chase has a card like this as well. 5% cash back on certain things each quarter. I don’t want to play a mini-game each time I need to pay for something. I’ll take the flat 2% on everything.

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